CHICAGO — A healthy heart beats up to 100 times a minute, but if that increases or decreases, you may suffer from a heart arrhythmia, caused by breakdowns in the electrical pathways of the heart.

Traditional methods to treat cardiac arrhythmias typically see cardiologists inserting a catheter into the heart to measure electrical impulses and determine where in the tissue the abnormal rhythm is ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - 1 in 18 people in the US have a heart arrhythmia. A study suggests that 1 in 4 adults over the age of 40 could develop an irregular heartbeat. A healthy heart beats up to 100 ...

A new way of treating arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation (AF) - the most common heart arrhythmia diagnosis in clinical practice - has debuted at UC San Diego Health. vMap is a non-invasive, ...

Built from MRI data this video shows how the heart muscle contracts (strain) which the researchers used to find genetic associations. A major cardiovascular risk factor is thickening of the heart ...

Abbott has scored clearance from the FDA for its latest 3D cardiac mapping platform, designed to help physicians target abnormal heart rhythms. The EnSite X EP system threads a catheter into the heart ...

Modelling the heart in 3D using combined imaging techniques can help predict heart rhythm abnormalities, or arrhythmias, in patients with the genetic heart disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Sensor-enabled surgical tools are moving from concept to clinic, owing to advances in miniaturised sensors, flexible ...

This new imaging technique, when applied to humans, could both improve our understanding of the circulatory system (veins, ...

A major cardiovascular risk factor is thickening of the heart walls (hypertrophy), which can result from high blood pressure—but is also linked to inherited diseases of the heart which can lead to ...